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Plugging vs Slugging - What's the difference?

plugging | slugging |

As verbs the difference between plugging and slugging

is that plugging is present participle of lang=en while slugging is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between plugging and slugging

is that plugging is the act of stopping with a plug while slugging is a blow or blows with the fist; a beating.

plugging

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of stopping with a plug.
  • The material of which a plug or stopper is made.
  • An arrangement of plugs.
    • We tried a few different pluggings .
    (Webster 1913)

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    slugging

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • (US) A blow or blows with the fist; a beating.
  • * 1962 , Daniel Bell, The End of Ideology
    • The feuding for control of the Jersey waterfront made news as sluggings , bombings, and beatings continued on the Jersey City docks.
  • (US) The act of hitting a ball hard; slogging.

    • Derived terms

    * slugging average * slugging percentage